5. Try updating WordPress again

If you’re no longer able to access your WordPress admin panel because you’ve forgotten or lost your password, fear not; you can reset it by manually editing your SQL database with phpMyAdmin.

Using phpMyAdmin, locate your WordPress database. If you’ve got many WP databases and are unable to figure out which one it is, look at the “wp-config.php” file in the root folder of your WordPress directory and find the line that looks like this: define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘xxxxx’);
Your database name will be in place of the xxxxx.

Open the database in phpMyAdmin and click on the wp_users table to see the list of WordPress users.

Click on “Edit” on the line representing the user whose password you want to reset.

Edit the user_pass value. IMPORTANT: You cannot type the password in plain text; you’ll need to generate your password using an MD5 hash generator. Go to one of the sites listed below, type in the password you want to use, generate the MD5 hash, and copy & paste that value it into the user_pass field in phpMyAdmin.

If you’ve modified any of your theme’s files directly, you’ll lose any changes you’ve made when your theme is updated. By using a child theme, you can override your theme’s settings without running the risk of losing your work.

The Pods Framework is an open-source, GPLv2+ licensed PHP project. The goal was to create an interface and PHP codebase to easily create, extend, and manage content types within WordPress. While the normal WordPress content architecture is limited to the built-in tables, a primary feature of Pods allows you to base content types off of their own custom tables designed around each content types’ needs.

The Pods Framework allows an ordinary user or developer to easily create and extend custom post types, content types, taxonomies, users, media, or comments — helping you keep your content organized and speed up the development of your project.

Pods starts as a blank slate, as most frameworks do. The control is put into the hands of the developer to mould it into what is needed, without the fluff. Much of Pods’ functionality is coupled with a UI for easy administration, however, there are large portions of the codebase that can be optionally used for advanced implementations or specific project needs. You control everything while Pods Framework does the behind-the-scenes heavy lifting.